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Wouldn't Spock be the oldest TREK character? He's the only hold-over from the original pilot.

"We like the pointy-eared guy, scrap everything else."

Actually NBC hated "the pointy-eared guy." They were afraid he came off as too satanic and strange. But Roddenberry fought to keep him. They also wanted to keep Jeffrey Hunter as the captain, but Hunter himself (or his wife) decided that wasn't going to happen. As for Number One, the network would've been happy to keep the character if she'd been recast -- they didn't like the nepotism and potential scandal of the producer casting his mistress in the role. But rather than admitting that, Roddenberry dropped the character altogether and found a different, less central role for Majel Barrett.

When Q was still in diapers, the Guardian of Forever had hair growing out of his ears.

I thought the Q had always existed?

Who can say? Maybe the Q evolved as biological beings on a planet millions of light years from the Milky Way a billion years from now. But when they developed their omnipotence, they've been able to travel from one end of the universe to the other, both in space and time, from the Big Bang to its final destruction. In a certain way, then, the Q could be considered to have always existed.

^Star Trek usually defaults to assuming everyone uses Earth time measurements. Implicitly, the magic of television isn't just translating their speech into English, it's interpreting their time units as well.

What it says on Memory Alpha is, "While Quinn stated that the Q were once not unlike humanoid lifeforms, Q implied that the Q never came in to existence, but rather always were." That's certainly not Quinn saying that the Q actually were humanoid, let alone that they were that way "around the Big Bang," which would've been completely impossible.